Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and artmaking approaches.
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
EQ: How do artists work? How do artists and designers determine whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error?
Skills Examples
- Generate a socially-relevant idea for an artwork that can affect a positive social change.
- After researching propaganda art, such as painting used during WWII, create an original work of art intended to sway the viewer's opinion about a specific social issue.
- Create works of art that revolve around a theme that the student has defined.
- Reflect upon and justify one's use of media and techniques when planning artworks that serve a specific purpose or address a particular theme.
- Demonstrate the creative process, with particular attention to gathering and interpreting information from diverse sources responsibility to create original works of art.
Vocabulary
- Artist Statement
- Abstraction
- Animation
- Distortion
- Elaboration
- Fragmentation
- Juxtaposition
- Magnification
- Metamorphosis
- Multiplication
- Reversals
- Simplification
- Viewpoint
- Form, intent, and content complement each other
- Intent drives the selection of media and technique
- Mix and blend materials
- Expand on new ideas of communicating visually.
- Making informed choices to communicate effectively.
- Artists pursue new and innovative ways to create multiple themed artworks with technical skill and mastery while maintaining and caring for materials.
- Reflect, re-engage, revise and refining works of art.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
